In July 2021, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) directing multiple federal agencies to take action to inject more competition into the marketplace. The EO expands regulations across multiple sectors, including agriculture. Yet it mostly ignores how the government’s current actions impede competition across numerous agricultural industries, to American consumers’ detriment.

One such barrier is the marketing order—a domestic regulation that allows fruit, nut, and vegetable farmers to control how their product is sold in the United States. The current marketing order on South Texas onions is now under review, and thus provides a good example of just how this anticompetitive regulation works in practice.